The Suburbanite | |
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The Suburbanite | |
Directed by | Wallace McCutcheon |
Written by | Frank Marion |
Starring | John Troiano |
Cinematography | A.E. Weed |
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Distributed by | American Mutoscope & Biograph Company |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent |
The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.[1]
Plot
The film is about a family who move to the suburbs, hoping for a quiet life. Things start to go wrong, and the wife gets violent and starts throwing crockery, leading to her arrest.
Cast
- John Troiano
Reception
Pamela Robertson Wojcik considers the film to be a landmark film for actors, noting that the "comic characters had assumed a more central position in the mise-en-scene", and as a result, the actor's skills were "increasingly called upon to create a rudimentary character".[2]
References
- ^ "The Suburbanite". Silent Era. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ^ Wojcik, Pamela Robertson (2004). Movie Acting, the Film Reader. Psychology Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-415-31024-6.